TY  - THES
A1  - Meuer, Christina
T1  - Untersuchung zur Lebensqualität bei Larynx- und Hypopharynxkarzinomen
T1  - Investigation on the quality of life after hypopharyngeal and laryngeal  carcinoma
N2  - Die Arbeit befaßt sich mit der Lebensqualität nach operativer Therapie von Larynx- und Hypopharynxkarzinomen. Dafür ist zum einen der EORTC QLQ-C30 Fragebogen der EORTC und zum anderen ein neu ausgearbeiteter Fragebogen, der speziell auf diese Tumorlokalisationen eingeht, verwendet worden. Die befragten Personen haben seit mindestens 6 Monaten ihre Tumorbehandlung in der Hals-Nasen–Ohrenklinik in Würzburg beendet und sind dort an einem Kontrolltermin gebeten worden die Fragebögen auszufüllen.
N2  - This work is about life quality after surgical treatment of laryngeal and hypolaryngeal cancer. Therefore I used the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire and a specially composed questionnaire, that deals with all those daily problems that turn up for patients after cancer treatment in this locations. The patients have to be at least six month postoperative. They have come to the HNO clinic in Würzburg for their regular check up and have been asked to fill out both questionnaires.
KW  - Lebensqualität
KW  - Fragebogen
KW  - EORTC
KW  - life quality
KW  - questionnaire
KW  - EORTC
Y1  - 2002
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-5712
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kurz, Anja
A1  - Zanzinger, Maren
A1  - Hagen, Rudolf
A1  - Rak, Kirsten
T1  - The impact of cochlear implant microphone settings on the binaural hearing of experienced cochlear implant users with single sided deafness
JF  - European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
N2  - Objective
Cochlear implantation has become a well-accepted treatment option for people with single-sided deafness (SSD) and has become a clinical standard in many countries. A cochlear implant (CI) is the only device which restores binaural hearing. The effect of microphone directionality (MD) settings has been investigated in other CI indication groups, but its impact on speech perception in noise has not been established in CI users with SSD. The focus of this investigation was, therefore, to assess binaural hearing effects using different MD settings in CI users with SSD.

Methods
Twenty-nine experienced CI users with SSD were recruited to determine speech reception thresholds with varying target and noise sources to define binaural effects (head shadow, squelch, summation, and spatial release from masking), sound localization, and sound quality using the SSQ12 and  HISQUI19 questionnaires. Outcome measures included the MD settings “natural”, “adaptive”, and “omnidirectional”.

Results
The 29 participants involved in the study were divided into two groups: 11 SONNET users and 18 OPUS 2/RONDO users. In both groups, a significant head shadow effect of 7.4–9.2 dB was achieved with the CI. The MD setting “adaptive” provided a significant head shadow effect of 9.2 dB, a squelch effect of 0.9 dB, and spatial release from masking of 7.6 dB in the SONNET group. No significant summation effect could be determined in either group with CI. Outcomes with the omnidirectional setting were not significantly different between groups. For both groups, localization improved significantly when the CI was activated and was best when the omnidirectional setting was used. The groups’ sound quality scores did not significantly differ.

Conclusions
Adaptive directional microphone settings improve speech perception and binaural hearing abilities in CI users with SSD. Binaural effect measures are valuable to quantify the benefit of CI use, especially in this indication group.
KW  - single-sided deafness
KW  - cochlear implant
KW  - adaptive directional microphone setting
KW  - questionnaire
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231750
SN  - 0937-4477
ET  - corrected version
ER  -